Posted on 08/21/2006 5:36:31 AM PDT by areafiftyone
- Adults in the United States place three Republican politicians as their top choices for the next presidential nomination, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and Press. 26 per cent of respondents would vote like Arizona senator John McCain to be the next presidential candidate.
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani is a close second with 24 per cent, followed by current state secretary Condoleezza Rice with 18 per cent. Support is lower for former House of Representatives speaker Newt Gingrich, Virginia senator George Allen, Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, Tennessee senator Bill Frist, and Kansas senator Sam Brownback.
In 2000, McCain won seven GOP presidential primaries in the United States, but retired from the race after eventual nominee George W. Bush became the frontrunner.
Giuliani garnered national and international attention in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Last month. Giuliani’s political action committee, Solutions America, reported total contributions of $1.49 million U.S. for June.
Rice previously served as Bush’s national security advisor. In October 2005, she appeared to rule out a presidential bid, saying, "It’s not what I want to do with my life, it’s not what I’m going to do with my life."
In American elections, candidates require 270 votes in the Electoral College to win the White House. In November 2004, Bush earned a second term after securing 286 electoral votes from 31 states. Democratic nominee John Kerry received 252 electoral votes from 19 states and the District of Columbia.
Bush is ineligible for a third term in office. The next presidential election is scheduled for November 2008.
Polling Data
Now I am going to read you the names of some possible candidates for the Republican nomination for president in 2008. After I read all the names, please tell me which one you would most like to see nominated as the Republican Party’s candidate for president?
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John McCain |
26% |
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Rudy Giuliani |
24% |
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Condoleezza Rice |
18% |
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Newt Gingrich |
5% |
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George Allen |
3% |
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Mitt Romney |
3% |
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Bill Frist |
2% |
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Sam Brownback |
1% |
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Other |
1% |
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None |
13% |
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Don’t know |
4% |
Source: Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,219 registered American voters, conducted from Aug. 9 to Aug. 13, 2006. Margin of error is 3 per cent.
Yes, exactly the way many Democrats sat out 1968 and let Richard Nixon defeat Hubert Humphrey. It is a very similar scenario.
Obama sounds way too much like Osama!!!!!
It's going to be McCain, and probably Romney as VP. We can make the best of it and try to influence them to remember conservative ideals, or we than throw a fit and yell that they aren't "pure" enough. But McCain has got the mindshare with Middle America, and except for Giuliani no other Republican has any at all - nor much time left to gain it.
Draft him!
And besides, Obama would get a lot more attention than mrs. Clinton, and she couldn't have that!!
If it is another Bush vs. Clinton election, Bush wins handily... of course, that is what the leftists in the media fear most and why he is not in any of their fake polls...
McCain is their butt licker, Giuliani is their Trojan Horse.
I truly don't think Jeb would get elected and I think he knows that. Which is why he isn't running this time around. In 2012 I think he just might do it.
LOL
Brownback is the only reasonable choice in the bunch you posted.
Tancredo!!!!!!!!!!
Well I don't know how reliable the Rasmussen polls are so you could be right. I take most polls with a grain of salt anyway. I think the whole thing was blow way out of proportion. He stuck his foot in his mouth about that Macaca and "Welcome to America' remark but its over, he apologized - met with the Indian/American leaders and that's that. What else do they want from him??? BLOOD??? HIS FIRST BORN?????
Rudy/Newt
There will be no McCain or Guliani get the Rep nomination. No way!
To be honest, I don't know much about him.
Jeb Bush would walk away with the GOP nomination and defeat anything the Democrats can come up with...
That is what the media fears most and why he is never in any of their fake polls.
As much as I don't like nothing being done about illegal immigration, Jeb would be a very clear choice over a liberal New York lawyers like Clinton and Giuliani...
McCain has anger issues and is not well liked in the Senate (heard around the campfire)
They will run but they may not win. We can't see into the future. From what I've heard of McCain - he's running allright. Rudy won't unless the Repubs retain control of the Senate and House. But just because they both run doesn't mean they will win. Someone may come on the scene who completely blows them away.
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